EV Changes My Perspective

I bought a car, just a car yes? Not meant to be a life affirming decision on the future. Not designed to change an outlook on life. Nothing to warn you this will shift the way you look at the world. Nothing to prepare you for the unexpected freedom you feel as the chains of capitalisim fall to your feet. It’s not a cult, a religion or even a paid evaluation. It’s just a car, and yet. Here I am, pondering the wide ranging impacts of this decision.

Looking back on the decision it would not have been predictable.

Listening to the radio I hear the advertising of new cars offering free service, or some incentive to purchase their vehicle. Now, it has no impact. It is as though that eco system is no longer relevant. The entire concept of incentive no longer applies to me anymore. It’s a strangly liberating feeling. I smile gently thinking of the people who still live that life. Still hang on every offered morsel looking to eek the last penny out of system designed to make you a consumer. Not only of the product but the expensive overcharging of services and massively overpriced original manufacturer products that continue to drain your income in an endless feedback loop until you relinquish that vehicle at some point. I no longer experience this anymore and just the thought of being free of this is….. joy.

Driving past the service station I used to be bound to body and soul. Using applications to find the best price for fuel at the nearest practical location. I was always searching for better prices as the entire market was designed to make you pay your hard earned cash to fuel your vehicle. Such a strange concept now. Since I no longer need it I look on it as an almost radical concept.. burning a fossil to power a machine for travel. I mean I know where it came from , the entire history of the motorized vehicle but market forces have strangled innovation so effectively we are bound into a dreadful cycle of find, buy , fill and rejoice if you can drop a couple of cents a litre. It’s almost absurd when you look at it, like rats in a maze we all followed the same mantra not realising it was an artifice created by the industry to preseve profits.

Never has a product had such a profound influence on the mindset.

To think of it now, as I drive down the street in a new EV it still makes we wonder why we are not all there aleady. Then I start to hear the stories from collegues, amazing tales of woe, all of it hilariously untrue. It is almost as through some malignent profit-addicted influence is spreading rumors to slow the change to electric. To strengthen the minds of people caught in the jaws of the fossil fuel industry. Much like a conspiracy theorist, you cannot convince them other than to show them. But even then they may not see it. People like just where they and moving them past their own prejudices is something no external party can do. Convinced are they that the catalyst converting, fuel eating, exhorbitant service pricing and service station slavery is the only way to go! Years of market manipulation and supression of innovation have brought us to this point. It is only now with my accidental freedom can I look at this with a new perspective.

One day we will all look back on this time and think.. really? We did that? When the technology was available, the support was there but we didn't switch. It will boggle the mind then as it does to me now. No service costs, be mindful that major manufacturers will absolutely try to bind new electric car owners into regular service or the motor service industry will just collapse. Be mindful they will intentionally design failure into the product to ensure this happens. This has all been done before, repeatedly so don't expect the new revolution to make any difference. But there are a few, who break the mold. Give the middle finger to the motor industry and have been largely responsible for dragging the world, kicking and screaming, into the age of the electric car through sheer willpower. Had it not been for the current industry we could have been here twenty years ago... so I ended up joining them and bought myself a Tesla and will never look back. Thanks Elon you crazy bastard, hat's off to you.